Experience

Certified Nursing Assistant, working with the elderly, and people with disabilities (since 2009)

 

Completed two 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreats (2007, 2009)

Finisher of Portland Marathon (2006)

 

Birth doula, trained through DONA (2005) 

 

Graduate of massage therapy and shiatsu 1000+ hr program from Cortiva Desert Institute of Healing Arts in Tucson, Arizona (2003)

 

Volunteer with Dr. Andrew Weil's Program in Integrative Medicine in Tucson, Arizona (2002)

 

Research assistant at the University of Arizona's Arthritis Center (2002)

 

Health education volunteer with US Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa (1995)

 

Graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia (1994)